Actually the future is very tight knit communities called families, and there will be almost no travel. (mostly because the inter-connects brings almost instantaneous communication from text to 3D for any intellectual friends outside of your family)
What i say about "normal" is, the 9-5 job, driving to work, living in a poorly built house that you spend your whole life working to pay off. Jobs, grocery stores, Hollywood, Govern-cement... these things are all going away.
I sure hope so. Those are good things. So, all of this is pushing some people towards making better choices in life, like you said. It might be a question still of how many people or how often people might slow down a bit.